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Name and Title - The Jefferson Society ? edit
The very name of the Society is, as it were, "debatable." As a Hall member, I have always taken the view that the finer and simpler name of the Society is simply The Jefferson Society.
Yes, descriptively, it is a literary and debating society, but including that in the official name is so much verbiage, and suggests there is some other, ideal Jefferson Society out there in the ether from which we must distinguish ourselves with the epithet Literary and Debating amidth our moniker. We start with The Jefferson Society, and every gratuitous syllable beyond that just hacks away at our collective trunk.
Note the seal of the Society: JS, not JL&DS.
The U.Va. alumni association irked me no end when it created its own "Jefferson Society," out of whole cloth, as a category of university donors at a certain annual level. It is of course no society, just a donor list.
Can we change the name of the article?
What's the "real" name of the Society?
Input from Hall Historians and the like? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.5.145.222 (talk) 12:59, 19 June 2009 (UTC)